Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip. 

We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and rich destination guides. 

Travelstride’s leadership and advisory board consists of travel industry and e-commerce veterans and employs a talented and resourceful staff spanning the globe.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

As Travelstride’s Content Marketing Manager, your primary goal will be to drive relevant traffic to Travelstride via organic search engines with the creation of targeted, engaging content. You will do this by cultivating and growing Travelstride’s travel writing contributor community.

Your Responsibilities:

• Produce & source blog content to drive user engagement and SEO-related user growth.
• Build a writing community - recruiting, onboarding, engaging a writer community to learn, have fun, and write better content for Travelstride and elsewhere
• Manage our email marketing, including planning and writing newsletters and triggered campaigns.
• Use data analytics and current digital marketing strategies to improve KPIs and our overall user experience.
• Write strategic SEO content yourself.
• Write some strategic branding content - eg. for our homepage, blog, or select emails
• Leverage Travelstride’s data entry team to improve and create content for our tour operator partners trips and profiles.

We’re looking for someone who can balance managing a decentralized team while producing content, keeping big picture strategy and the finer points of content marketing & SEO in mind.
 

• Fluent in English
• Well-traveled, preferably with travel industry experience 
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing-related field preferred
• Strong familiarity with Google docs, Google sheets, Hubspot, and Mailchimp
• The ability to create written content of the highest quality
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• 2 to 5 years of experience in the following areas:
  • Managing an email marketing campaign
  • Producing and managing blog content
     

We are looking for someone who:

• Is an evangelist at heart who loves sharing things, ideas, experiences you love with people near and far
• Enthusiastically and proactively helps beyond the bounds of their day to day role
• Loves managing multiple projects simultaneously, hitting deadlines, and prioritizing workloads effectively
• Is known as a cheerful colleague, with a good sense of humor and positive attitude
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Work Environment

• Full-time role with flexible work schedule
• Work from home (company offices located in Austin, Texas)
• Ability to work from abroad if located in Latin America, Europe, or Africa, but must be willing to join calls as late as 12 PM U.S. Central time on as-needed basis
• English-speaking team

Why Work With Travelstride?

We are a small but growing team in the dynamic and exciting travel tech industry. Working alongside the Co-founders, you will influence key decisions during a very pivotal time for our company and have an impact from day one. You will help grow our business while knowing that you are improving the travel planning experience for all of our customers. 

We also offer:

• Compensation package with potential to earn stock options
• Flexible work schedules and an open and collaborative team environment
• Chance to be an early employee at a growing startup & work directly with Co-founders